Boardroom Media (CFO News)
At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CFO’ operating in the Renewable Energy space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Thomas J Walker
Partner, Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Walker is a Partner of Riverstone and serves as the Chief Financial Officer. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone, Mr. Walker was a Principal at The Carlyle Group serving as the Carlyle/Riverstone Fund Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Carlyle, he held similar positions at Hampshire Equity Partners, a middle market buyout fund managing approximately $900 million of capital commitments; and Ripplewood Holdings, a private equity firm managing approximately $4 billion of capital commitments in the U.S. and Japan. Prior to joining Ripplewood, Mr. Walker was the Director of Financial Reporting and Planning at Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE: ABG), a Ripplewood portfolio company. He started his career in Arthur Andersen’s Metro New York office. Mr. Walker earned a B.S. degree in Accounting and Finance from Binghamton University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Peter Haskopoulos
Chief Financial Officer of Riverstone Holdings
Chief Financial Officer at Riverstone Holdings.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Han Kieftenbeld
Chief Financial Officer of Amyris
Han Kieftenbeld joined Amyris as Chief Financial Officer in March 2020. He brings over 25 years of international business leadership, finance and operations experience in food, health and nutrition end-markets. Most recently, from April 2016 to April 2019, Mr. Kieftenbeld served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Innophos Holdings, Inc., a leading international science-based producer of essential ingredients for health and nutrition, food and beverage and industrial brands. From June 2014 to July 2015, Mr. Kieftenbeld served as the Global Chief Financial Officer at AB Mauri, a worldwide leader in bakery ingredients. Prior to that, Mr. Kieftenbeld held finance and operations roles of increasing reach and impact, including serving as Global Chief Procurement Officer of Ingredion Incorporated, and Global Chief Financial Officer of National Starch. Mr. Kieftenbeld started his career at Unilever in the Netherlands. In 2006, Mr. Kieftenbeld earned a joint master’s degree from New York University Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the HEC School of Management, Paris. He holds a B.S. in Business Economics and Accounting from Windesheim University in the Netherlands.
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About Amyris: Amyris Biotechnologies specializes in creating renewable products focusing on fuels and chemicals.
Christopher Cline
Chief Financial Officer of Locus Energy
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About Locus Energy: Software monitoring and analytics for the solar industry.
Kristine Burke
Chief Financial Officer of Ener.co
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About Ener.co: Ener.co delivers a fully transparent 15-45% cooling energy savings and 100% greater financial return on cooling assets.
Jonathan Stein
Chief Financial Officer of Hess Midstream Partners
Jonathan Stein was appointed chief financial officer of their general partner in July 2014. He has served as chief financial officer of Hess Infrastructure Partners since its formation. Jonathan Stein has been vice president, financial strategy since 2016 and continues in the role of chief risk officer of Hess, which he has held since June 2004. He is responsible for Hess’ corporate financial forecasting process, midstream segment financial reporting, and derivative disclosure and accounting policy. He is also a member of Hess’ disclosure review committee. Jonathan Stein previously served as corporate risk manager at Hess. Prior to joining Hess in 2001, he was a consultant with Ernst & Young LLP’s risk management and regulatory practice, where he assisted financial services and energy trading clients in establishing their risk management infrastructure. He serves on the board of trustees of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
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About Hess Midstream Partners: Hess Midstream Partners focuses on processing natural gas and fractionating natural gas liquids (NGLs) in the United States.
Jay Disler
CFO of Spot On Networks
Jay Disler is our Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining us in 2009, Mr. Disler served as Chief Financial Officer for telecommunications and technology companies including Graphic Scanning Corp., ECCS, Inc. and FPI Thermoplastic Technologies. Previously, he served as Audit Manager at Deloitte and Touche. He received a B.A. and MBA from Rutgers University, and received his CPA license in New York and New Jersey.
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About Spot On Networks: Spot On Networks offers tech platforms that provide wireless broadband internet access to residential users in multifamily dwelling units.
